Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition. The Net’s most celebrated lawyer cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture in this TEDTalk.
In this brief, but fast-paced talk, Lessig outlines two cultures – the read-only culture (RO) and the read/write culture (RW). In stating his case, Lessig cites these classic examples from the remix culture:
